This past week the following 6 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .academy, .center, .company, .computer, .management and .systems. Some of the sales are difficult to find as a few domains don’t have …
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.Company gets 7815 registrations on day 1 into GA while .Uno flops with 715
The following 6 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability yesterday: .ACADEMY .CENTER .COMPANY .COMPUTER .MANAGEMENT .SYSTEMS. Also .Uno went into general availability yesterday. Here are …
Read More »General Availability Starting Today: .Training .Support .Solutions .Builders .Email and .Uno
Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 5 New gTLDs today: .Training .Support .Solutions .Builders and .Email. There is also .Uno coming out today. The most promising New gTLDs are probably .Training and .Support. …
Read More »1st New gTLD Contention Auction Scheduled For 4 June 2014
ICANN is publishing the schedule [PDF, 376 KB] of the upcoming Auctions for unresolved contention sets. The first Auction Event is scheduled for 4 June 2014. As described in Module 4 of the Applicant Guidebook, …
Read More »Donuts Calls for Conclusion to .SPA New gTLD Delay
Donuts wrote to ICANN Board Chairman Steven Crocker yesterday asking ICANN to put an end to the delay involving its application for .SPA New gTLD. Here is the complete letter: Dear Steve: We strongly urge the Board to advance the .SPA TLD through the processes enshrined in the Applicant Guidebook. While we respect the concerns raised by the City of Spa and the Belgian Government, we are confident that we have thoroughly addressed those issues, and that
Read More »New gTLD domain name renewals: from $26 up to $1,600 for a Premium domain
I posted some of .domains purchases in my post about .domains domain name sales. I was asked to post my best .domains purchases and had a glance and picked 14 of them. A reader asked …
Read More »New gTLDs Reach 300,000 Registrations With .Berlin Getting 31,956 On It’s First Day
Yesterday .Berlin, the first geographic/city New gTLD string went into general availability and it got 31,956 registrations in it’s first day. .Menu started on Monday and it got 1649 registrations in it’s first day. According …
Read More ».eu domain name renewal rate tops 80% in 2013
On average, 81% of .eu domain names were renewed in 2013, according to the latest progress report from the .eu registry EURid. This is the seventh year running that .eu has maintained such a high …
Read More »Hustler.Clothing New gTLD Domain Name Suspended Because Of Pending WHOIS Verification
The New gTLD domain name hustler.clothing has been suspended for 2 weeks now. The domain name is owned by Larry Flint Productions that is the owner of Hustler magazine and hustler.com. The domain was suspended …
Read More »Go Daddy Refunds EAP Pre-Registration Fees to Affected Customers
I posted an article yesterday about Go Daddy not refunding the Early Access Program (EAP) fee of Donuts EAP pre-registrations. A few hours later I received an email from the “Office of the CEO – …
Read More »ICANN Grants Data Retention Waiver to European Registrar OVH SAS
On the 12th of March ICANN granted a data retention waiver to European registrar OVH SAS. There are a lot more registrars that are waiting for this waiver such as Irish Registrar Blacknight that Is …
Read More »Verisign: US announcement does not affect operation of the .com and .net registries
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the global leader in domain names, today provided a statement on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) announcement of its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions. The announcement …
Read More »Go Daddy is inclined to miss EAP pre-registrations: They keep the EAP fee and pay nothing to Donuts
I started writing this post thinking of one thing and realized that something else was more important. Look at the conclusion at the end of this post. This blew my mind. I am sure a …
Read More »ICANN reacts to U.S. decision to transfer stewardship of important Internet technical functions
ICANN Board Chair, Steve Crocker, reacts to U.S. decision to transfer stewardship of important Internet technical functions:
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